Jeremy Stone
Passion for meaningful impact
Just 43 years old, Jeremy Stone has served as senior vice president of golf ball marketing at Titleist for the past five years and head of U.S. sales since the summer of 2024. Those are big jobs, and the fact that this Carnegie Mellon MBA holds them – and does so with pride and passion – is not surprising when you consider that golf – and Titleist – have been a part of his life since he was a youngster.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Stone began accompanying his father to the golf course when he was 6 years old.
“Dad was a dedicated and diehard golfer, and the one who taught me the game,” said Stone. “Eventually, I started going to golf camps and then working at the place he played, Hopewell Valley Golf Club. I picked the range, cleaned clubs and caddied some. Later, I taught at junior golf camps and at a First Tee facility.”
Stone also competed a bit, on his junior high and high school teams and later at Carnegie Mellon, a private, Division III school in Pittsburgh.
“I played three years there as an undergraduate as I majored in finance,” Stone said. “But when I started the MBA program (at its Tepper School of Business), I had to focus on my studies.”
Stone recalls his father giving him a Scotty Cameron Newport putter when he made the freshman golf team, a gift that seems even more appropriate when considering that the Carnegie Mellon mascot is a Scottish Highland Terrier – and that student-athletes there are known as “Scotties.”
Then in the summer between his freshman and sophomore years, Stone supplanted the Wilson staff blades in his bag with a set of Titleist DCI 962 B irons.
“Working at Titleist has been a dream. I am in golf. I get to watch golf every Sunday because it is my job.”
As for his golf ball, he has played Titleist for as long as he can remember.
After earning his MBA in 2006, Stone moved west to take a job at Apple, spending four years at the tech company.
“I was working on software and was there when Apple launched the iPhone,” he said. “I remember the presentation Steve Jobs gave when that came out, and it reinforced a desire to do something that impacts people in meaningful ways.”
In time, that aspiration brought Stone back to golf.
“I had kept my eye on the industry while at Apple and had even interviewed at one point at Titleist for a marketing position with Vokey wedges,” he recalled. “I did not get the job, but the head of golf ball marketing at the time, Chris McGinley, passed my name along to some people with the company back East.”
Not long after that, Stone received a call from Mary Lou Bohn, Titleist president for golf balls.
“We talked about a couple of jobs,” said Stone, who is married and the father of two young daughters. “She suggested a day for my first interview that happened to be during the 2010 Masters. “Very reluctantly, I told her I was not available that week because I was taking my father to the tournament for his 60th birthday. Of course, Mary Lou understood, so we set up the interview for another time.”
That meeting went well, and so did subsequent interactions. And in June of that year, Stone joined Titleist as a market research analyst based at its headquarters in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. After a couple of years in that position, he rose to international advertising manager. Then in an interesting bit of kismet in 2015, Stone became the director of marketing for Vokey wedges.
Five years later, the equipment maker made him head of golf ball marketing.
“Working at Titleist has been a dream,” he said. “I am in golf. I get to watch golf every Sunday because it is my job. I was able to travel around the world with Bob Vokey and educate golf professionals and golfers about his wedges. Now, I get to do it all with golf balls and as head of U.S. sales.”
John Steinbreder
